The Wilderness
Will be published approx. on 6. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-83675-019-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Everywhere in the wilderness I hear the cries of other mothers. I call back to them, asking for help, but sometimes they can't hear me through their own cries'
A forty-day journey of trial and transformation has meaning in many cultures, including in Savas's own. In this candid, tender essay, she charts a path through an unknown landscape - the first forty days of motherhood - in search of herself and the words for what has happened to her, following the birth of her baby.
A forty-day journey of trial and transformation has meaning in many cultures, including in Savas's own. In this candid, tender essay, she charts a path through an unknown landscape - the first forty days of motherhood - in search of herself and the words for what has happened to her, following the birth of her baby.
Reviews / Votes
'As a personal chronicle, it's arresting and deep, and makes for a rewarding entry into the growing pantheon of postpartum literature.' 'Savas documents the 'messiness and entanglement' of the 40 days after birth, a period so often completely invisible to the outside world.' -- Cora Currier * Beyond the Motherhood Memoir * '[The postpartum period is] a cloistered time, and Savas's book is cloistered: an essay in 40 parts, one for each day, but they are not diary entries so much as scenes, memories, or pieces of research, reflections.' -- Cora Currier * Beyond the Motherhood Memoir * 'In her debut work of nonfiction, The Wilderness, the Paris-based Turkish novelist Ayseguel Savas examines the transformation encountered when giving birth and becoming a mother, looking to the mythic significance of the first forty days . . . Savas distills and examines this limit-experience in a potent book that just barely surpasses 100 pages.' -- John VinclerMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83675-019-2 (9781836750192)
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Person
Ayseguel Savas is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Walking on the Ceiling, White on White and The Anthropologists, and the short story collection Long Distance. Her work has been translated to over a dozen languages. Originally from Turkey, she lives in Paris. The Wilderness is Savas's debut work of non-fiction.